Published by Vinayak Hegde on 14th January 2009
The Jaisalmer Fort rises in the middle of the desert and shines in the morning sun thus earning the moniker “Sonar Kella” (The Golden Fort). The golden colour of the fort is due to the sandstone reflecting the rising or the setting sun. Sonar Kella was also the name of a detective novel by Satyajit Ray which was later made into a film.
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Published by Vinayak Hegde on 20th September 2008
During medieval times,
Jaisalmer was a stop on the camel routes across the
Thar desert. After independence, Jaisalmer gained strategic importance being in the middle of the Thar Desert and close to the border of Pakistan. This “unknown musician” was playing on the banks of the Gadisar Lake (‘Sar’ is lake in Marwari and is derived from ‘Sarovar’ in Sanskrit) in Jaisalmer, playing mellifluous music on his Dotaar. The Do-taar – literally “two-stringed” is a cousin of the
Sarangi.
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